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Judicial Watch announced today that United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that discovery can begin in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides will now be deposed under oath. Senior officials ‐ including Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Jacob Sullivan, and FBI official E.W. Priestap ‐ will now have to answer Judicial Watch’s written questions under oath. The court rejected the DOJ and State Department’s objections to Judicial Watch’s court-ordered discovery plan. (The court, in ordering a discovery plan last month, ruled that the Clinton email system was "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.")
Judicial Watch’s discovery will seek answers to:
Whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-government email system; whether the State Department’s efforts to settle this case beginning in late 2014 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.
Discovery is scheduled to be completed within 120 days. The court will hold a post-discovery hearing to determine if Judicial Watch may also depose additional witnesses, including Clinton and her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills.
Judge Lamberth ordered written responses under oath to Judicial Watch’s questions from Obama administration senior officials Rice, Rhodes and Sullivan, and former FBI official Priestap. Rice and Rhodes will answer interrogatories under oath on the Benghazi scandal.
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Until indictments are handed down and they start being dragged into a federal court, it is all kabuki theater. Hopefully this goes all the way, but I'll believe it when I see it.
[Daily Caller] The FBI wanted to reestablish contact with Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele days after President Donald Trump fired bureau Director James Comey, a top Department of Justice official revealed during a previously secret congressional testimony.
DOJ official Bruce Ohr laid out efforts to influence the DOJ by Christopher Steele, a former British spy being paid by the Democratic National Committee via the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The FBI terminated Steele as a source in late 2016, reportedly for his contacts with the media, but he continued to funnel information to the bureau through Ohr.
On May 9, 2017, Trump fired Comey, which concerned FBI leaders. Comey has since been sharply critical of the president.
On May 15, Ohr and Steele discussed "re-engaging" with the FBI at the bureau’s request, which Steele agreed to, according to the testimony, which was obtained by The Epoch Times.
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It is entirely possible the Bureau disengaged Steele along with his dossier fiction upon discovering his DNC funding connection. When Comey was fired, they threw caution to the wind and used Ohr as a Steele intermediary.
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Yeah... because of "Security Concerns". Listen you crusty old bitch. If you are so worried about security, you pay for it yourself with your ill gotten wealth or don't fucking show up.
More than likely she doesn't want him to have prime time to make a case for the wall and shutdown.
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Well with the other story about Trump's Trap all her security folk might be RIF'ed by that time if the layoff is still in effect. Jan 16 + 5 days is Jan 21 so RIF's by the 22 and State of the Union by 29th.
Dem ex-gov-workers will be rioting in the street by the 29th.
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Well, the shutdown is kinda the current state of the union, is it not? We need a report from the president and we wanna watch Nancy's face while she and Pence sit right behind him as he delivers it to Congress and the American people.
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Pelosi's request should be turned into a source of innocent merriment. She can stay home, if Her Speakership so desireth.
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It is mandated by the constitution for the president to present the state of the union to congress. How this is done is left blank. It used to be just a letter to the congress until Wilson started to present it in person.
Trump could send it in a series of tweets if he wanted to.
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Having said that, Trump should still give the state of the union live on TV to give his pitch directly to the people. It needs that personal appeal which a letter or tweet lacks. If Nancy refuses to open up the house of representatives for it, then just go on prime time TV. Face time is needed and Nancy is trying to prevent that.
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Give the SOTU Live on TV and have a letter of the speech delivered, Sign on Delivery, to Congress. Site that this is a "Money Saving Action" and have done with the circus...
#12
Doesn't she want attention brought to the shutdown? For some reason most folks are worried about the military getting their checks but are happy to see the rest of of the bureaucracy on food stamps.
[DAWN] With White House residence staff among those hit by the United States government shutdown, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... personally ordered in an "all American" feast of burgers and pizza on Monday for a visiting football team.
"Because of the shutdown, as you know ... we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me," the president quipped, as he prepared to host the Clemson Tigers university players to celebrate their national championship win.
"I think they'd like it better than anything we could give," said Trump, after landing back at the White House following a day trip to New Orleans.
"We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries, all of our favourite foods ‐ I want to see what's here when we leave, because I don't think it's going to be much," the president mused.
Asked to name his own favourite fast food ‐ as he stood smiling behind the gargantuan spread ‐ Trump demurred, insisting: "I like them all."
"If it's American, I like it. It's all American stuff."
"The reason we did this is because of the shutdown," he added.
"We want to make sure that everything is right, so we sent out, we got this."
Around 800,000 federal employees ‐ including much of the White House residence staff ‐ have been on mandatory leave or working without pay for 24 days as Donald Trump and Congress wrangle over funding for a wall on the southern border.
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What's more important? Sitting down at a State Dinner for a College Athlete -OR- being able to say the POTUS shook his hand in the White House while he was eating a Big Mac™? The second is a great story to tell to the Grand-kids.
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Hamburgers, French fries, Pizzas
All American stuff?
Oh, yeah. We done culturally appropriated the hell out of that stuff. One more reason why America totally rocks. We do thank y'all for creating it, though. Sharing is caring!
/me recalls a story his high school German teacher told about taking a visiting German buddy to an American fast food restaurant. Poor dude was bemused to see to hamburgers and frankfurters on the menu. "What, you are eating people from Franfurt?"
And let us not forget the immortal words of President Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner." (I am a jelly donut)
[USA Today] WASHINGTON ‐ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address from later this month if the government remains shut down.
"Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th," Pelosi wrote in a letter to Trump.
The government shutdown is now on its 26th day, officially the longest on record in U.S. history. Trump has demanded $5.7 billion to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and has vowed to veto any legislation that does not include the sum. Democrats oppose a wall and are refusing to appropriate the money.
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As I recall, warthogswife, the president is required to report to Congress at regular intervals, but the length of time between reports is not defined. He can report to the nation any time he likes.
The Speaker of the House just doesn’t want her vacation interrupted by something else she won’t be listening to.
[Politico] The progressive African-American pols have emerged as early kingmakers for Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Stacey "Tank" Abrams and Andrew Gillum ‐ two of the Democratic Party’s breakout Loser
candidates of 2018, despite losing their elections for governor of Georgia and Florida ‐ are looking to parlay their near-success into the defeat of Donald Trump in 2020.
The pair of young, progressive African-American pols amassed so much political fame that they’re a must-call for the growing roster of likely Democratic presidential contenders. They’re also on some early and unofficial lists as possible vice-presidential running mates.
The White House hopefuls don’t just crave an endorsement from Abrams or Gillum. Each boasts valuable donor and volunteer lists, in the Southeast’s two biggest states that, if won next year, would almost guarantee a Democratic White House.
[Free Beacon] Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a political analyst.
The network announced the new addition to its team during an interview with McCaskill on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" early Tuesday.
McCaskill, who lost her Senate seat to Republican challenger Josh Hawley back in November, released a statement expressing her excitement about being a political analyst on the networks, according to the Hill.
"I’m looking forward to bringing my experience from the Senate, hard fought campaigns, and Midwest common sense to the coverage of breaking political events. And, as always, I won’t hold back," McCaskill said.
"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski quipped she looked forward to having McCaskill’s "really good, sharp elbows" at the table to fend off fellow host Joe Scarborough.
The two-term senator and former ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee also tweeted out a picture of her arriving at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center to report for her first day of work.
[NYPost] And the Country clamors for a milquetoast flip-flopping pasty white New Left neo-feminist who loves hates guns... the line forms ....over there. In the coatroom
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Preznit Teeth and Eyes: "I was told there'd be no math"
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Right - after Obama, I don't believe we are collectively stupid enough to elect what would be a barely 35 year old idiot broad socialist with the IQ of a dead cat.
[The Hill] Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) met with representatives from CBS News to discuss the ongoing controversy over the network’s lack of black reporters slated to cover the 2020 presidential race.
"CBS admitted they had a lot of work to do & committed to including Blacks on their 2020 election team & all other teams. True diversity is the inclusion of ALL. I won't let them off the hook!" Waters tweeted Tuesday night.
The California Democrat had earlier sent a tweet panning the network for its lack of diversity in its campaign team.
"CBS, the efforts on your website about your support for diversity fly in the face of your display of all of the reporters you've selected for the 2020 campaign. Not one Black. What's up with this? An explanation is needed," she tweeted Monday morning.
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I have an idea - CBS ought to hire RuPaul as a 2020 reporter. He (?) checks all the boxes - black, gay, practically transgender, and it'll make a complete mockery of this diversity / quota bullshit.
Photos of the cross-dressing man and two women of colour, as they say, can be seen here, so kudos on intersectional boxes ticked.
[IsraelTimes] The Women’s March names three Jewish women to its new 32-member steering committee. The Jewish members are transgender rights activist Abby Stein; Union for Reform Judaism staffer April Baskin; and Jewish diversity activist Yavilah McCoy.
Stein, a formerly Hasidic transgender woman, has worked to raise awareness for transgender people as well as those leaving ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Baskin is the former vice president of Audacious Hospitality for the Union for Reform Judaism and is a former president of the Jewish Multiracial Network. McCoy is the founder of Ayecha, a Jewish nonprofit that advocates for Jews of color.
The Women’s March has come under fire in recent months due to its leaders’ handling of allegations of anti-Semitism, with celebrities and activists openly criticizing the organizers’ actions.
The controversy started when organizer Tamika Mallory attended a speech by and then praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Jewish and homophobic statements.
More recently, a report in Tablet said that Mallory and fellow organizer Carmen Perez had made anti-Semitic statements at two Women’s March planning meetings, claims which the organizers deny.
A number of organizations have dropped out as March sponsors, including the National Council of Jewish Women, Southern Poverty Law Center and EMILY’s List. Last week, the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a major Reform congregation in New York, announced it was disassociating itself from Women’s March, Inc.
[IsraelTimes] Many local chapters no longer willing to be affiliated with national group over claims that they have not done enough to disavow anti-Semitism.
[ABC] A federal judge in New York on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 census, finding that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross "violated the public trust" when he decided to insert a citizenship question.
While the Constitution gives the Secretary of Commerce "broad discretion" over the census, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Ross violated administrative procedures. Furman called Ross's decision to include the question "arbitrary and capricious."
"Secretary Ross’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census ‐ even if it did not violate the Constitution itself ‐ was unlawful for a multitude of independent reasons and must be set aside," Furman wrote.
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Amazing the expanse of power the aristocracy judiciary claims. The Constitution calls for a census for enumeration of the House of Representatives. That's it.
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Surely there is time before 2020 to bring this case to the SCOTUS.
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What about all the intrusive questions I recall from the last census that I was told to answer On pain of law and perjury charges such as my income, did I own my domicile, etc. etc. What abut those extras that got added in a Big Brother™ fashion to the census?
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What about all the intrusive questions I recall from the last census that I was told to answer On pain of law and perjury charges
If memory serves, you can refuse to answer most/all of the questions on the decadal census. However, there is something called the American Community Survey. It looks and smells like the Census, but is on-going and much more detailed. And has legal penalties associated with your response.
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I answered the required info and blew off the "how many miles do you commute to your feeble employment in your carbon-spewing death trap of pollution you racist bastard" questions. No reaction back
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[Right Scoop] Wow, this sounds like it could get interesting...
[Daily Caller] The FBI wanted to reestablish contact with Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele days after President Donald Trump fired bureau Director James Comey, a top Department of Justice official revealed during a previously secret congressional testimony.
[USA Today] WASHINGTON ‐ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address from later this month if the government remains shut down.
[ABC] A federal judge in New York on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 census, finding that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross "violated the public trust" when he decided to insert a citizenship question.
